# Looking for visual file system explorer

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-visual-file-system-explorer/388058>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 15, 2007, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-visual-file-system-explorer/388058 "2007-01-15T13:11:59Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![Athena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/35a633/32.png) [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2007, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-visual-file-system-explorer/388058/1 "2007-01-15T13:11:59Z")

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A while back, someone posted a link to a shareware utility that allowed you to browse a hard drive visually. Specifically, it would make folders that had a lot of stuff in them look really big.

I find myself in need of such a utility. I have a drive that is telling me it’s full, but for the life of me I can’t find where all the data is on it. I suspect there’s some utility that is caching log files there, but if there is, it’s 12 folders deep and I don’t want to spend all morning looking for them.

Can someone point me in the right direction? My Google skills don’t seem to be working this morning.

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**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2007, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-visual-file-system-explorer/388058/2 "2007-01-15T13:30:02Z")

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[TreeSize](http://www.jam-software.com/treesize/) might do the trick.

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**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2007, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-visual-file-system-explorer/388058/3 "2007-01-15T13:47:04Z")

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My favourite disk space visualiser is [Scanner](http://www.steffengerlach.de/freeware/)

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**Author:** ![Emilio\_Lizardo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@Emilio\_Lizardo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emilio_Lizardo)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2007, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-visual-file-system-explorer/388058/4 "2007-01-15T14:25:14Z")

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[WinDirStat](http://windirstat.info/) gives you a nice graphic view of the relative sizes of all of the data on your hard drive.

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**Author:** ![Absolute](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b2d939/32.png) [@Absolute](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Absolute)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2007, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-visual-file-system-explorer/388058/5 "2007-01-15T15:07:35Z")

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I second the recommendations for Scanner and WinDirStat.

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**Author:** ![Keeve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f07891/32.png) [@Keeve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Keeve)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2007, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-visual-file-system-explorer/388058/6 "2007-01-15T23:21:18Z")

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I’ve needed something like this for the past… oh, I guess it’s only been a dozen years or so. Thanks to you all for the leads!!!

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**Author:** ![Mr.Slant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c57346/32.png) [@Mr.Slant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Slant)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2007, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-visual-file-system-explorer/388058/7 "2007-01-16T00:44:48Z")

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My favorite is SequoiaView.

[http://www.win.tue.nl/sequoiaview/](http://www.win.tue.nl/sequoiaview/)